Denton ISD Pre-K Pacing Guide
3rd Six Weeks
Nov. 5- Dec. 21, 2012
(Six full weeks)
Language &
Communication
A. Listening
B. Speaking
C. Speech Production
D. Vocabulary
E. Sentence & Structure
Reading
A. Motivation to Read
B. Phonological
Awareness
C. Alphabet Knowledge
D. Comprehension
Writing
A. Motivation to Write
B. Independently
Conveys Meaning
C. Forms Letters
D. Concepts about Print
Math
A. Counting
B. Adding To/Taking
Away
C. Geometry
D. Measurement
E. Classification &
Patterns
Theme(s):
 Nutrition
 Fall/Winter Weather
 Fall/Winter Culture
Goals
 Follows 2-step verbal directions
 Participates in conversations (taking turns)
 Retells events or acts out stories about what
he/she did
 Responds to simple instructions (ELL)
 Uses past tenses and pronouns correctly
 Uses complex sentences
 Concepts of print
 Makes compound words
 Claps syllables
 Identifies rhyming words
 Identifies letters
 Retells and acts out a story.
 Predicts what will happen next in a story
 Begins to make letter like forms
Essential Questions
 How does listening help me
communicate?
 Why is the way you say
something important?
 How can I communicate my
ideas/thoughts so others will
understand my thinking?
 What do good readers do?
 How do letters help us?
 What makes up a word?
 How will knowing letters and
sounds help me to read?
 How can I play with sounds?
 How do syllables help us read
words?
 What do good writers do?
 Demonstrates sequence of numbers
 Uses ordinal numbers to count and applies it
in everyday situations
 Subatizes 1-5
 Recognizes and distinguishes numerals from
letters
 Adds, subtracts, and divides objects to solve
problems
 Identifies solids and puts them together to
make objects
 Positional words
 Slides shapes
 How do we use numbers?
 What is pattern?
 How can patterns be used to
make predictions?
 Why do we measure?
District Assessments
1st year:
 Trace their name from a model
 Counts one-to-one correspondence up to 4
2nd year:
 Recognizes letter sounds
 Intentionally uses scribbles/writing to convey meaning
 Separates a normally spoken four-word sentence into
individual words
 Identifies: circle, triangle, rectangle, square, rhombus
Activities
 Picture Walks
 Make predictions
 Acting out a story, The Gingerbread Man
 Share read and write a story
 Characterization
 Sequence a story read aloud
 Count the words in the sentence orally before writing and have
students illustrate it in centers.
 Have the students count the words in the sentence as they read
the words.
 Have students come up to read (point at) the class story from the
sentence strips.
 In the “Read around the room” center give the students some
big cutouts of letters that are difficult for the students to
remember or ones you are specifically working on. Have the
students locate those letters in the classroom.
 Place paper and pencil in the home center for the students to
create a Thanksgiving or grocery shopping list or a list for
Santa
 Trace over pencil written name with finger paint, shaving
cream, or other gooey substance or trace with a popsicle stick
 Play “I Spy” with sounds
 Play “I have….who has”
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Create a counting station with different manipulatives and
numerals
Make objects out of Styrofoam or use other art materials to create
new shapes
Make a shape book with magazine clippings of different
shapes (Monster Shape Book).
Make a graph of your favorite food from each food group.
Denton ISD Pre-K Pacing Guide
 Compares space, capacity, and weight
 Creates a floor graph with concrete objects
 Identifies repeating patterns in nature
Science
A. Physical
B. Life
C. Earth and Space
D. Personal Safety &
Health
Social Studies
A. People, Past and
Present
B. Economic
C. Geography
D. Citizenship
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Temperature
Seasons affect daily life
How animals and humans depend on plants
Identify what is healthy and not healthy
Identify what to do to stay healthy
 Respects and finds similarities in other
cultures
 Participates in pretend play of caring for a
family
 Show and tell items of family heritage
 Family customs and traditions
 What does it mean to be
healthy?
 How does weather affect us?
 SALSA (Life in a Tree/Bears)
 Unit of the apple tree: make a graph of favorite apples, different
seasons of the apple tree
 Make a graph of healthy food and non-healthy foods from magazines
 What makes culture a part of
our life and how we live it?
 How do our choices affect
our life and others?
 Make a dish from a family tradition
 Bring an item from home that represents something you do as a
family and explain.
 Winter Customs Around our Classroom